Biohacked & Begging
And Other Stories (Nudge the Future)
by Stephen Oram
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Pub Date 12 Apr 2019 | Archive Date 19 Apr 2019
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Description
Near future Sci-fi at its best. Think Black Mirror meets Nova.
“Enter Stephen Oram: With Bradbury’s clear-sightedness and Pangborn’s wit.” – Simon Ings, New Scientist
“Oram sees what few other SF writers see – the perversity of our everyday relationships with new technologies – and thrusts that vision five minutes into the future.” Dan O’Hara, Editor of Extreme Metaphors: Selected interviews with J. G. Ballard, 1967 – 2008
Immerse yourself in the future of biohacking and implants, genetic modification, blockchain micro-transactions and futuristic dating-apps with the author of Eating Robots, Stephen Oram.
Prodding and poking the possible in volume 2 of Nudge the Future, Oram starts with another flash fiction foray into the world of Unified Sentience and ends with virtual reality for babies and biohacked fish.
With sharpness and wit, these sci-fi shorts will grab your imagination and refuse to let go.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stephen Oram writes social science fiction and is lead curator for near-future fiction at Virtual Futures. He enjoys working collaboratively with scientists and future-tech people - they do the science he does the fiction. He's been a hippie-punk, religious-squatter and an anarchist-bureaucrat; he thrives on contradictions. He is published in several anthologies and has two published novels, 'Quantum Confessions' and 'Fluence'. His collection of sci-fi shorts, 'Eating Robots and Other Stories', was described by the 'Morning Star' as one of the top radical works of fiction in 2017.
Advance Praise
"The more we surround ourselves with technology, the more uncanny our lives become. Enter Stephen Oram: with Bradbury’s clear-sightedness and Pangborn’s wit, he pulls ways to live out from under modernity’s "cacophony of crap." Simon Ings, Arts Editor, New Scientist
"Can humans remain 'more than digital, more than flesh' with detachable limbs, multiple ears, implants that can be hacked and nanobots that can be ingested? These thoroughly enjoyable and contestable futures explore the personal and political implications of fleshy and messy encounters with contentious technology and the epidemic of algorithms." Stelarc, Performance Artist
"There's a distinct flavour of literary Martianism to Biohacked & Begging. With the eye of a visitor from an alien planet, Oram sees what few other SF writers see – the perversity of our everyday relationships with new technologies – and thrusts that vision five minutes into the future." Dan O'Hara, editor of Extreme Metaphors: Selected Interviews with J. G. Ballard, 1967–2008
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781781328576 |
| PRICE | £7.99 (GBP) |
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Featured Reviews
Squid G, Reviewer
ARC Copy...it was an intriguing yet frightening portrayal + speculation of ideas of what biotechnology can actually do for humans as a whole and the possibilities/futures it could open up. Designer food, drugs and so forth has never been so interesting and scary at same time.
Dave W, Reviewer
An intriguing collection of shorts, some even flash fiction short, exploring a future of nano-bots, implants,and more. It's a future that is dystopian in feel, oft-putting, uncomfortable, treacherous, one where perhaps we are all unsure what all this advanced technology has bought us. Are we better off enhanced, implanted, nano-botted? Or are we just as insecure, nervous, and unsure. Some real gems here among others that didn't fascinate entirely.
8stitches9lives �, Reviewer
Biohacked & Begging is the second volume of flash fiction shorts in the Nudge the Future series which is a selection of speculative stories that push the realms of possibility. It depicts a dystopian future that is both frightening and intriguing and is intensely thought-provoking giving the reader food for thought about whether we can live alongside advanced technology or whether we are doomed to be enslaved by AI creations. There are some fantastic ideas here and the worlds created in each instance are profoundly imaginative, although of course, it's subjective when it comes to which you find most entertaining and enjoyable.
This is a must-read for speculative fiction fans and those with an interest in cutting edge science and technology but it touches on issues of our existence, too. I loved it and will be seeking out more work of Mr Oram's in the future.
Many thanks to Cameron Publicity & Marketing Ltd for an ARC.
Victoria P, Reviewer
Everything about this book is aesthetically pleasing to me. The cover, title, and summary.
Very happy that Netgalley let me snag this.
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